Stimuli that are highly predictive of reward or loss in one context are readily associated with privileged perceptual processing in other contexts (Raymond & O’Brien, Psych Science 2010). Here we study how these associations extend to the dorsal stream’s automatic pilot (Chapman & Gallivan et al, Cognition 2010; Pisella et al, Nature Neuroscience, 2000). In previous work, we have shown that participants forced to begin reaching before they know the final target position show movement trajectories that are biased toward the side of space containing a greater number of targets, up to a limit of about four (Gallivan & Chapman et al, Psych Science, 2011). Using the same task in the current study, participants made rapid reaches toward displays with two differently shaped targets. Each target shape was associated with a specific gain or loss in a preliminary learning task (Experiments 1 & 2) or the shape-specific gain or loss association was acquired during the rapid reach task (Experiments 3 & 4). The design of our experiments allowed us to explore the independent consequences of reward value (gain vs. loss) and reward probability (low vs. high) on the movement trajectories. We show that reaches are automatically biased toward both stimuli with a positive reward-value and stimuli with a high probability of being acted upon. Conversely, we find no evidence that reaches are biased away from (or toward) stimuli with a negative reward-value. This indicates that target selection and inhibition in non-conscious motor planning are not symmetric – the automatic pilot is much faster to select targets (especially those of high value) than it is to inhibit non-targets (even if moving toward them leads to a negative outcome). In essence, the automatic pilot cannot avoid what is not good for it. For that, the more deliberate processes of the frontal lobes are likely involved.